希臘工人舉行新一輪反緊縮措施示威

New waves of Greek workers walked off their jobs Thursday in a heightened protest of the government's effort to impose austerity measures to satisfy international creditors.

Public transportation ground to a halt in Athens, while power company workers sought to block their employer from collecting a new property tax and lawyers refused to appear in court. The electric workers said the power company should not be used as a tax collector, with customers threatened with a power cutoff if they don't pay the tax.

The protests in Greece came as European officials voiced new worries about the effects of the continent's governmental debt crisis. It has roiled international stock markets for weeks, with share values falling again Thursday on London, Paris and Frankfurt exchanges.

The French finance ministry said banks heavily exposed to Greek debt might have to take losses of more than the 21 percent that was proposed in a July agreement calling for a second bailout for the Athens government. Some officials are suggesting that the banks' losses on Greek securities could reach 50 percent.希臘工人星期四舉行新一輪罷工，對政府爲滿足國際借貸方要求而採取的緊縮措施舉行更大規模抗議。

雅典的公共交通完全陷於癱瘓，電力公司員工試圖阻止他們的僱主徵收新的財產稅，律師則拒絕出庭。

電力公司員工說，電力公司不應該被當作收稅機構。用戶被威脅如果他們不繳納財產稅，他們家中的電力就會被切斷。

在希臘舉行抗議之際，歐洲官員對歐洲國家的政府債務危機表達了新的擔憂。歐洲的債務危機連續幾個星期拖累全球股市。星期四，倫敦、巴黎和法蘭克福的股市再次下跌。

法國財政部表示，承擔希臘鉅額債務的銀行可能勢必會蒙受損失，損失程度將超過7月份對希臘政府實施第二輪救助方案時認定的21%的損失水平。一些官員指出，銀行在希臘債券上的損失可能高達50%。